The Advanced LIGO Photon Calibrators
- Document #:
- LIGO-P1500249-v16
- Document type:
- P - Publications
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| LIGO-P1500249-v17
23 Jul 2019, 11:37 |
- Abstract:
- The two interferometers of the Laser Interferometry Gravitaional-wave Observatory (LIGO) recently detected gravitational waves from the mergers of binary black hole systems. Accurate calibration of the output of these detectors was crucial for the observation of these events, and the extraction of parameters of the sources. The principal tools used to calibrate the responses of the second-generation (Advanced) LIGO detectors to gravitational waves are systems based on radiation pressure and referred to as Photon Calibrators. These systems, which were completely redesigned for Advanced LIGO, include several significant upgrades that enable them to meet the calibration requirements of second-generation gravitational wave detectors in the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy. We report on the design, implementation, and operation of these Advanced LIGO Photon Calibrators that are currently providing fiducial displacements on the order of 10E-18 m/sqrt(Hz) with accuracy and precision of better than 1 %.
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- Authors:
- Richard Savage
- Sudarshan Karki
- Darkhan Tuyenbayev
- Shivaraj Kandhasamy
- Evan Goetz
- Benjamin Abbott
- Thomas Abbott
- Evan Anders
- Jonathan Berliner
- Joseph Betzwieser
- Hernan Daveloza
- Craig Cahillane
- Laetitia Canete
- Craig Conley
- Joe Gleason
- Jeffrey Kissel
- Kiwamu Izumi
- Gregory Mendell
- Volker Quetschke
- Michael Rodruck
- Surabhi Sachdev
- Travis Sadecki
- Paul Schwinberg
- Alberto Sottile
- Madeline Wade
- Alan Weinstein
- Matthew West
- Notes and Changes:
- V16 contains the file that was sent out to the journal
reviewer comments and possible replies to the comment were added as additional files but the main file was left intact.